Sectors - Hotels
Travelodge, Romford Market (part of wider development)
An 80 bed, seven storey reinforced concrete framed hotel for Travelodge, as part of a wider mixed development.
The structural frame consisted of a series of flat slabs at each floor level, and was clad in traditional brickwork with a metal studwork inner leaf. Internal party walls between bedrooms also utilised a metal studwork system.
The existing site had a lively and active market which was operational three days of the week and had to continue trading throughout the development. The design needed to consider phased demolition and construction, extensive services diversions and works adjacent to existing occupied buildings.
The remainder of the development consisted of 2 storey retail units with 2, 3 and 4 storeys of residential development above, a 4 storey landmark building and a multi-storey car park.
Holiday Inn Express, Eastlake Park Milton Keynes
A Design and Build project working with SDC Construction Limited, over two phases.
Phase one comprised the initial build of the hotel, and provided 100 bedrooms plus associated restaurant, leisure facilities, meeting rooms, etc. The bedroom elements were constructed using a modular precast concrete system, clad with traditional brickwork and render.
Phase two provided a 60 bed extension comprising a three storey building in traditional loadbearing masonry construction with precast concrete floors and trussed roofs. Although the shell was constructed traditionally in the extension phase, bathroom pods were utilised to reduce overall construction time.
Ibis, Westmoreland Road Bromley
A feasibility study for Land Securities Trillium for an 80 to 130 bed IBIS hotel in the centre of Bromley.
The project involved the demolition of an existing high-rise office building and its replacement with a nine storey hotel, plus a series of new residential buildings alongside.
The hotel structure was based on a cast-insitu reinforced concrete frame and transfer structure at ground and lower ground floors, supporting five to eight stories of bedroom accommodation above. The bedroom levels were based on the Bell and Webster Fast Build Rooms system of precast concrete floors and wall panels.
Works were complicated by a series of trunk sewers that ran under the site, requiring part of the transfer structure to cantilever at first floor level to provide the required number of bedrooms.
Travelodge, Albion Street Bexleyheath
A feasibility study for Development Securities for a 120 bed Travelodge in the centre of Bexleyheath.
The project involved the construction of a new three storey hotel building over an existing car park. A timber frame system and lightweight cladding were proposed for the structure in order to keep loads on the existing car park construction to a minimum.
The car park comprised two levels of reinforced concrete construction, and was originally designed to support a future two storey departmental store over. Unfortunately, although the foundations and lower storey columns were proven to be adequate for the new loadings, the requirement to construct a transfer slab and associated columns over the upper parking level proved more expensive than a comparable cleared site. This, and the cost of acoustic treatment along the adjacent dual carriageway, lead to the scheme.s demise.
Project Client: Development Securities
Project Value: £8.0m estimated
Premier Travel Inn, Crown House Kidderminster
A feasibility study for Land Securities Trillium to create an 80 bed hotel for Premier Travel Inn. Located in the centre of Kidderminster, works comprised part of a wider redevelopment of an existing high-rise office building constructed in the 1960s.
The hotel was to occupy part of the ground floor, plus four full floors above, with a further three floors at the top of the building being used for office accommodation. The existing concrete framed structure had no spare structural capacity and was clad in very lightweight GRP cladding. As a result new internal partitioning and exterior cladding was to be kept as light as possible, consideration even being given to removal of the existing roof slab to save weight. The scheme included a partial extension above the first floor podium slab to increase bedroom numbers.
Proposals were complicated by the .island. nature of the site, difficult vehicular access and potential parking issues for hotel guests.
Pendley Manor, Tring
PEP were consultants for a 48 bed extension to this existing listed, privately owned hotel complex, which included new leisure facilities, a swimming pool and gym.
The structure comprised a three storey building in traditional loadbearing masonry, with precast concrete floors and trussed roofs.
Project Client: Pendley Manor Hotel
Project Value: £5.50m estimated